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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Sep 10, 2021
This bill requires the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness within the Department of Defense (DOD) to designate an executive agent for commercially available advanced foreign language training to meet operational readiness requirements of DOD.
The executive agent must establish a procedure for the respective military departments to reimburse any organization of DOD that provides foreign language instruction to service members.
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Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] · R–NE
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Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
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